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/ˈɪʃuː/
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/ˈɪsjuː/
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/ˈɪʃjuː/
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/ˈɪʃʉw/
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/ˈɪsjʉw/
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/ˈɪʃjʉw/
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/ˈɪʃ(j)u/
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/ˈɪʃʉː/
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[ˈɪʃɪ̈ɯ]
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/ˈɪsjuː/
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/ˈɪʃ(j)uː/
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/ˈɪs(j)ɪʊ̯/
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/ˈɪʃɪʊ̯/
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ˈɪsjuː
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ˈɪʃ(j)u
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Noun
The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow A movement of soldiers towards an enemy, a sortie.
Usage- Obsolete
The action or an instance of flowing or coming out, an outflow The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
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The technique minimizes the issue of blood from the incision.
And behold, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelue yeeres, came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the hemme of his garment.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out The bodily fluid drained through a natural or artificial issue.
Usage- Archaic
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For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out Offspring: one's natural child or children.
Usage- Historical
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He died intestate and without issue, so the extended family have all lawyered up.
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His Majesty, His issue, if any, and the descendants of that issue, shall not after His Majesty’s abdication have any right, title or interest in or to the succession to the Throne, and section one of the Act of Settlement shall be construed accordingly.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
Usage- Figurative
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Although his own kingdom disappeared, his issue went on to rule a quarter of Europe.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out A race of people considered as the descendants of some common ancestor.
Usage- Figurative
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Someone or something that flows out or comes out The produce or income derived from farmland or rental properties.
Usage- Archaic
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3. A conveys to B all right to the real property aforementioned for a term of _____ years, with all said real property's attendant issues, rents, and profits.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
Usage- Historical
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Someone or something that flows out or comes out The entrails of a slaughtered animal.
Usage- Obsolete
Someone or something that flows out or comes out Any action or deed performed by a person.
Usage- Obsolete
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Someone or something that flows out or comes out Luck considered as the favor or disfavor of nature, the gods, or God.
Usage- Obsolete
Someone or something that flows out or comes out A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
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Yeah, I just got the June issue of Wombatboy.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
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The May 1918 issue of US 24-cent stamps became famous when a printer's error inverted its depiction of an airmail plane.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out The entire set of something; all of something.
Usage- Figurative
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The bloody sergeant snaffled our whole issue of booze, dammit.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out Any financial instrument issued by a company.
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The company's issues have included bonds, stocks, and other securities.
Someone or something that flows out or comes out The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out, particularly
The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out A sewer.
Usage- Obsolete
The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet An exit from a room or building.
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How if there were no centre at all, but just one alley after another, and the whole world a labyrinth without end or issue?
The place where something flows or comes out, an outlet A confluence: the mouth of a river; the outlet of a lake or other body of water.
Usage- Archaic
The action or an instance of sending something out, particularly
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The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
The action or an instance of sending something out A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
Usage- Historical
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Issues and fontanels were supposed remedies for joint diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions.
The action or an instance of sending something out The production or distribution of something for general use.
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Congress delegated the issue of US currency to the Federal Reserve in 1913.
The action or an instance of sending something out The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
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The uniform was standard prison issue.
The action or an instance of sending something out The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
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The company's stock issue diluted his ownership.
Any question or situation to be resolved, particularly
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Please stand by. We are having technical issues.
Any question or situation to be resolved A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
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The issue before the court is whether participation in a group blog makes the plaintiff a public figure under the relevant statute.
Any question or situation to be resolved Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
Usage- Figurative
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For chrissakes, John, don't make an issue out of it. Just sleep on the floor if you want.
Any question or situation to be resolved A difficult choice between two alternatives, a dilemma.
Usage- Obsolete
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Any question or situation to be resolved A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
Usage- US usage
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She has daddy issues, mommy issues, drug issues, money issues, trust issues, printer issues... I'm just sayin', girl's got issues.
The action or an instance of concluding something The end of any action or process.
Usage- Obsolete
The action or an instance of concluding something The end of any period of time.
Usage- Obsolete
The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome, particularly
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The eternal happiness or misery of the departed saint depended on the issue of this contest between the powers of good and evil for the possession of his mortal remains.
The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome The result of a discussion or negotiation, an agreement.
Usage- Archaic
The end result of an event or events, any result or outcome The result of an investigation or consideration, a conclusion.
Usage- Obsolete
The action or an instance of feeling some emotion.
Usage- Archaic
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The action or an instance of leaving any state or condition.
Usage- Archaic
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Verb
To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
Usage- Intransitive
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The water issued forth from the spring.
The rents issuing from the land permitted him to live as a man of independent means.
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...thy sons that shall issue from thee...
1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV There was a very light off-shore wind and scarcely any breakers, so that the approach to the shore was continued without finding bottom; yet though we were already quite close, we saw no indication of any indention in the coast from which even a tiny brooklet might issue, and certainly no mouth of a large river such as this must necessarily be to freshen the ocean even two hundred yards from shore.
A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly […]
To rush out, to sally forth.
Usage- Intransitive
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The men issued from the town and attacked the besiegers.
To extend into, to open onto.
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The road issues into the highway.
To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
Usage- Intransitive
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But, for Livy, Roman patriotism is overriding, and this issues, of course, in an antiquarian attention to the city's origins.
To end up as, to turn out being, to become as a result.
Usage- Archaic
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And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
To send out; to put into circulation.
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The Federal Reserve issues US dollars.
To deliver for use.
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The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.
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Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
To deliver by authority.
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The court issued a writ of mandamus.
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Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.
Noun
an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
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the issue could be settled by requiring public education for everyone
politicians never discuss the real issues
one of a series published periodically
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she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room
some situation or event that is thought about
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he kept drifting off the topic
he had been thinking about the subject for several years
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it is a matter for the police
the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity)
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a new issue of stamps
the last issue of penicillin was over a month ago
supplies (as food or clothing or ammunition) issued by the government
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the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
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the average return was about 5%
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
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the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise
his decision had depressing consequences for business
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he acted very wise after the event
the immediate descendants of a person
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she was the mother of many offspring
he died without issue
the becoming visible
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not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins
an opening that permits escape or release
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he blocked the way out
the canyon had only one issue
the act of issuing printed materials
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Verb
prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
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publish a magazine or newspaper
circulate or distribute or equip with
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issue a new uniform to the children
supply blankets for the beds
bring out an official document (such as a warrant)
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come out of
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Water issued from the hole in the wall
The words seemed to come out by themselves
make out and issue
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write out a check
cut a ticket
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Please make the check out to me